The Disturbing Truth Behind The Worst Month Of Vince McMahon’s Life

Small change in comparison to some of the above tales of darkness and debauchery, the product suffered under the strains of these external challenges.

In an effort to keep Lex Luger hot before a second challenge at Yokozuna the following WrestleMania, WWE sought to get Finnish heel Ludvig Borga over as an equally devastating foreign menace. They gifted him Tatanka's near-two year undefeated streak in November, writing the Native American out of the Survivor Series in the process. Borga subsequently drew poorly with Luger in December and was injured in January, before the company could even get a pay-per-view payday out of the Tatanka rematch.

Survivor Series didn't need McMahon's state trial distractions, the Hart/Lawler disaster or any more matches getting robbed of serviceable midcarders in this manner. A catastrophic contest featuring Bam Bam Bigelow's heels getting bantered to death by Men On A Mission and The Bushwhackers dressed in Doink masks was one of the most embarrassing spectacles in company history. It's a vision of a product entirely off the rails. The clown was a f*ckabout face rather than a heel, and he wasn't even part of the match because the original man behind the paint (and the only one who might have gotten babyface Doink over) Matt Bourne had just been fired.

In a tragicomic end to 1993, Bobby Heenan exited Raw and WWE altogether at the hands of longtime rival Gorilla Monsoon. It was a beautiful send-off between the two real life best friends, but occured because WCW had given 'The Brain' the proverbial financial offer he couldn't refuse. The crumbling company had lost another cornerstone and The Chairman couldn't even really do much about it.

Maybe this, rather than any of the individual incidents, was what stung the most for McMahon. To look at him now is to see an unflappable, untouchable tycoon immune to everything, let alone the minor disturbances we all might enjoy heightening. Power beyond the amount any normal human would really need.

For one torturous tenure in his incomparable existence, he was completely, entirely powerless.